I like when I have to think

Big Liberty, in her response to my latest post in Intuitive Eating said (in part):
Of course, it’s a slippery slope from saying it’s okay to restrict and unrestrict based on personal health, and then it’s okay to restrict to lose weight, which some would argue is also for personal health. The difference is that weight [...]

Another Post on Intuitive Eating

Spawned from things I’ve been reading on the fatosphere in the past couple of days.
First, I read There are Diets, and then there are DIETS by meowser, who linked to Fillyjonk’s post Stumbling Towards Ecstacy.  Both of those articles gave me a lot to think about, and then I read On Diets by Big Liberty, and finally, [...]

Art Show and Fluffy topics

We are home from the Art Show, where I read the essay I wrote in front of about 50 people.   The show was really good, even if some of the images in the art were hard to look at. 
There was a huge quilt, at least the size of two king size bedspreads put together, made of [...]

The Butterfly Effect

This weekend is the art show, Finding Our Voices. It’s in honor of April being Sexual Assault Awareness Month.  I’m going to be speaking tomorrow (part of the art show is authors reading poetry and other things).
Because of that, I’ve been thinking a lot about sexual assault and abuse, and how it’s affected my life [...]

About that “Study”

On May 18, 2008, I wrote (in my private journal) this about the “study” that has surfaced again, you know, the one about how fat people are the cause of all the worlds ills.  I decided since they recycling the study, I’ll just recycle this post to a bigger audience. 
 
I’ve tried to find the study on [...]

Article for Discussion

I saw this link on Twitter from Rachel over at The-F-Word.
The article is “Which is Worse These Days:  Being Called Fat or Whore?”
It seems almost impossible for people to talk about their food without invoking a larger meaning. I do not know anyone for whom food is simply sustenance. And perhaps it has always been [...]

Time Tested Beauty Tips

I’m not one to pass on beauty tips, but I got this in email, checked the veracity of it (and found the real author) and decided to pass this on.  I hope you all enjoy!
 
Time Tested Beauty Tips
 
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
 
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, [...]

Reading list

Over the last month or so, I’ve not had as much access to computers and the internet as I normally do.  The laptop had a massive OS crash, and the computer was an expensive doorstop for a while.
Now it’s fixed, and I can access the internet any time of the day or night that I [...]

Fear

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will [...]

I’m back!

Did you miss me?
Now that my computer is fixed, I’ll be back onto my normal schedule!  I am sorry I got out of schedule for the last week, but I was on vacation and couldn’t bring my laptop with me.
It’s back, and I’m back.  And I’ve got things to talk about.
We start back [...]